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Depends on the node, we have a blend of Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6128 CPU @ 3.40GHz and Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6136 CPU @ 3.00GHz
So a blend of high quality potassium with pure water = exothermic deal.
I can't believe you're not shouting this from the rooftops lol, a Gold in Australia for $5 AUD per month. I need to change my pants..
@QuantumCore 😳are you guys trading from Canberra ? Saw the address while paying invoice
Yes, we are located in Canberra
Sorry I didn't understand. You mean if I deposit $5, then order a new service with 6 months duration, then it means I can use those $50 free credits for 6 months instead of just 2?
Correct. You can opt for 6 month billing period.
Or if we use the lowest plan at 5 AUD per month, you top up 10 get 50 total 60 you go for annual billing for this lowest plan you can have the VPS for a year.
Not many spots left :-) Get it while it's still available.
I'm kinda lost for words, which is unusual for me lol.. My mind is still trying to comprehend the awesomeness of this deal, especially since it's been revealed we're dealing with Xeon Gold processors here.
This is me since I found out:
Honestly, anyone with a spare $5 should get this before it's gone and regret kicks your ass very hard, misses, and gets your nuts instead. It's like that.
I've just signed up with them and couldn't agree more with @dahartigan - my initial impressions are awesome.
Thanks @QuantumCore - now that there's a bunch of us from here, we hope you'll be more active and perhaps have a few promotions every now and then for us.
I hope I can find a way to keep this over a longer term... (that credit promotion just made this probably the best value-for-price VPS this entire BF+CM).
I opened this thread hoping to find a quantum computer to decrypt bitcoins. This isn't one.
Damn! Means my node will get congested - I enjoyed the peaceful start, for months. :-p
I really don't need another idling server even though this is a super deal. It's super value for money!
Idlers are a peaceful tribe. They do not congest or otherwise reduce the value on node. In fact they are good for the community as they occupy slots that otherwise could have gone to abusers. 'tis the season to be thankful (to idlers, may their tribe increase, who also pay the bills!), for without them the world would be a hard place full of violent competition for resources.
Got one!
You know you want to.
Nobody needs idle servers, we just collect them like stamps or bottle caps lol
I actually have faith this won't happen, there are multiple of these beasts from what I understand (they said there's a mix of different golds, so at least 2) lol I haven't "felt" any new signups..
Welcome to the quantum club lol :-)
Good luck with your search :-)
Noice.
I was thinking more like wine or cigar collection.... But we are on LET. Stamps or bottle caps will do just fine.
I've been using Quantum Core since April, for hosting a few sites that are primarily used by Australians. Honestly they're one of the best providers I use, on par with other well established providers like BuyVM. Highly recommended!
dd is not a good benchmark, please don't use it for benchmarking. It's not at all indicative of real world performance as it only tests sequential writes (which are very rarely performed, random writes are more common) and can be affected by caching on the host node. It's much better to use
fio
. Binary Lane have some great docs on this: https://support.binarylane.com.au/support/solutions/articles/1000055889-how-to-benchmark-disk-i-oAlso, their support will enable host passthrough if you ask in a ticket, which lets you see the real CPU rather than "QEMU Virtual CPU" and improves performance in some use cases (as the real CPU flags will be visible to the system, so things like AES will be much faster)
I'm going to try that, but honestly, it feels fast enough even without the flags passed in my opinion.
I do daily backups using Borgbackup, and the extra CPU flags help speed up the encryption, which means the backups aren't using as much CPU power and compete more quickly
We'll aware but it's results can't just be ignored as it's what the majority of people use.
Because most people don't know better. I think I will roll fio instead of dd for future benchmarking. Honestly, sequential writing is almost never the bottleneck for most use cases. It is like benchmarking RAM speed.
people use it to get big numbers, not to actually test the appliance, most of them have no idea how sequential reads or random writes work
Sure, but people continuing to use it just perpetuates the myth that it's useful
I've seen providers where
dd
speeds are fine but actual real life performance is horrible, andfio
results reflect that. Earlier in the year I had to switch one of my VPSes to another provider because their 'nvme' disk performance was so bad that it was actually affecting the performance of my app, butdd
results were fine.Host passthrough is now enabled by default for any future signups
If you're an existing customer you will need to open a ticket though.
Opening a ticket now!
Edit: done in 3mins.
Results are beautiful.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/15014696
@QuantumCore Is it possible to upgrade CPU or RAM without upgrading to the next plan? If so, prices for an extra core and for an extra gig of RAM?
I want to find a sweet spot for using it as a remote desktop, 1 core and 1 gig works, but obviously more would work better.. just trying to work out how much more lol
Hey mate,
Unfortunately we don't allow customizations of our plans at this time.
Cheers